Cultural Digital #031 - Kind of Bleu
Cultural Digital
Hello
You may notice that I've started sprucing things up around here design-wise. It's the usual kind of stuff though - links, events, jobs, and all that jazz. Please enjoy responsibly.
Speaking of jazz, The Universe of Miles Davis shows Miles Davis’ legacy, represented by mentions on Wikipedia pages. Very nicely done.
Links
Git and GitHub for Poets is a smart little series. If you don't yet know this stuff then this is a nice way to learn it (or at least get the gist of it).
Instamuseum: Turn Your Instagram Pictures into a Virtual Museum. Did I ever mention that links do not necessarily imply endorsement?
The other week I had a link to a theremin you can play in the browser. This week you can make your own! Top marks to anyone who actually does it.
A Game About Conservatory by Wattles is "A small game set at an american music conservatory, an experiment in dialogue trees, and general fanboying of wikimedia commons".
Blinkies from Lost My Name "easy-to-use animations that make children’s drawings more magical. Just play one of the animations on your phone or tablet, place a child’s drawing over the screen and watch it come to life. Dim the lights for extra magic".
Almost everything you read about classical metadata is wrong. According to this. Sorry about that.
René is a tool for brute-forcing design permutations which seems quite smart to my non-designer self. The explanation doesn't half go on, but it does get interesting near the end.
14 museums run by Paris Musées have digitised their collections, with just shy of 200,000 objects and labels, digitised and available online. Meanwhile, un robot fait visiter le Louvre-Lens aux patients du centre hospitalier. Because I studied French.
Good try, Paris, but this article reckons that Berlin is cementing its lead as Europe’s digital art capital
Reports! Because everyone loves a good report:
If digital conservation is your thing then check out Matters in Media Art.
People talking about websites (and object labels)
New websites
Bass Performance Hall, Castello Festival, Disability Arts Online, Hallé Orchestra, The Old Globe, Pen Català, Pocket Penguins, Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, Tate Time Machine.
Events
9-12 June, London - Into The Wild: Decoding the Creative Journey
22 June, London - #DrinksThing with @CultureGeek
5-10 July, Sheffield - CMC Playground
Jobs
There are digital-related jobs going at the Ashmolean Museum, Manchester International Festival, the National Theatre, The Place, and the Postal Museum.
As ever, thanks for reading and please forward/share this email if you found it useful.
Chris Unitt
@chrisunitt
When not sending newsletters like this, I work with cultural organisations on projects that involve digital strategy, content and website analytics. Visit One Further for more on that.